Street Machine

DAVID DANN

LAST issue we began our wander through the formative years of David Dann’s motorcycle and car journey. The skills and knowledge gained from those earlier projects have borne fruit in a series of full rebuilds over the past four decades, a number of which have traversed the path less travelled. “I’ve long been my own worst enemy, undertaking projects on cars that are rare to our shores and often with oddball drivetrains, that I then of course have to make as powerful as possible,” David laughs. “Any normal person would simply build a 10-second bigblock Chev, an LS or the like, with parts you can pretty much buy at your local 7-Eleven. But not me – I have to do it the hard way!”

DRIVING a 400-cube 1968 Pontiac GTO in the late 1970s had some serious cool factor,

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